Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεῖμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεῖμαι κείσομαι

Structure: κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lie, lie outstretched, to lie asleep, repose, lie idle, lie still
  2. to lie sick or wounded, lie in misery
  3. to lie dead
  4. to lie neglected, uncared for, unburied
  5. (of wrestlers) to have a fall

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κεῖμαι δ’ ἐπ’ ἀκταῖσ, ἄλλοτ’ ἐν πόντου σάλῳ, πολλοῖσ διαύλοισ κυμάτων φορούμενοσ, ἄκλαυτοσ ἄταφοσ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:7)
  • τηλόσε γὰρ δὴ σᾶσ ἀπενάσθην πατρίδοσ καὶ ἐμᾶσ, ἔνθα δοκήμασι κεῖμαι σφαχθεῖσ’ ἁ τλάμων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:12)
  • Ἔτι ἐν Βαβυλῶνι κεῖμαι τριακοστὴν ταύτην ἡμέραν, ὑπισχνεῖται δὲ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ ὑπασπιστήσ, ἤν ποτε ἀγάγῃ σχολὴν ἀπὸ τῶν θορύβων τῶν ἐν ποσίν, ἐσ Αἴγυπτον ἀπαγαγὼν θάψειν ἐκεῖ, ὡσ γενοίμην εἷσ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων θεῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)
  • "ἔχω δ’ ὁκόσον ἔδαισα χὠκόσ1’ ἠείσα χὠκόσσ’ ἐράσθην τὰ δ’ ὄλβι’ ἡμέων δήιοι συνελθόντεσ φέρουσιν, ὥσπερ ὠμὸν ἔριφον αἱ Βάκχαι, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐσ Αἵδην οὔτε χρυσὸν οὔθ’ ἵππον οὔτ’ ἀργυρῆν ἅμαξαν ᾠχόμην ἕλκων σποδὸσ δὲ πολλὴ χὠ μιτρηφόροσ κεῖμαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:172)
  • πολλὰ πιὼν καὶ πολλὰ φαγὼν καὶ πολλὰ κάκ’ εἰπὼν ἀνθρώπουσ κεῖμαι Τιμοκρέων Ῥόδιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 9 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to lie

  2. to lie sick or wounded

  3. to lie dead

  4. to have a fall

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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